Bent County register., 1887-09-17
DR.. E. P. Rice.
Physician and Surgeon,
: ONCE over City Drug Store. North Side.
LAMAR, COLORADO.


collection of the foot apparel of the
editorial fraternity of eastern Colo
RADIO be done up and sent to the Cen
eral Ticket Agent of the B. & N. Il.
R., 30 that he could see the sore
straits to which they haye become
reduced in the last few months from
the lack of transportation. But when
a cold and unfeeling creature stand
ing by propounded the interrogatory
as to what they would do tor such
apparel till it was returned, cold,
clammY silence fell over the proposi-
ton as dense as Platte valley fog
in September.-[H Hyde Topics.
A writer in the Philadelphia Call
credits the children of the country
with controlling the circulation of
the pennies. He says: 'Twice
year-just before the Fourth of July
and Christmas-they become. con-
spicuous articles of commerce by
their absence from general circula-
ton. The reason for this semi-an-
nual scarcity is due to the practice
that most families have of providing
Jug in which the little ones of the
household may deposit the money
they are given and keep it until the
holidays arrive. As the money they
receive is generally in the denomina-
ton of pennies, this economic habit
is the means of retiring temporarily
from the street millions of the cop
per COINS. There are at least mil
lion families in this country in which
the Fourth of July and Christmas
jugs form a part of the domestic fur
niture. Multiply the million jugs by
lnnumerable pennies, and you can
see what difference it will make
for the time being in business to be
done. without great deal of incon-
venience. As soon as the 25th of
December has passed out came the
pennies, and they have been nui-
sance ever since. Who would think
the little ones could control the
money of the country to such an ex-
tent? The domestic penny bank is
quite an institution.
Mr.. A. J. Wilson brings the Trib-
une samples of celery, tomatoes,
squash and corn grown on his ranch
that are worthy of special mention.
This vicinity can produce as fine
crops as any section of the country
if labor and Judgment are bestowed
as they must be anywhere to make
successful crops Ebert Tribune.
Kilgore g. Seeley received an ad-
dition to their collection of farm pro-
duce last Thursday. Mr.. A. Nichols
whose farm is seven miles up the
river, brought in musk-melon
weighing eleven and half pounds ;
watermelon weighing thirty-one
pounds, fifty-five inches in circum-
ference; cane seven feet high; nine
foot corn; sweet potatoes 7x4 inches
through; turnip beets fifteen inches
in diameter, and hubbard squashes
thirty inches in circumference. They
also received the same day half
grown squash from J. I. Potter, q
neighbor of Mr.. Nichols, which
weighed one hundred and three
pounds and was tifty-seven inches in
diameter. There are farms in east
ern states which will equal this, but
considering that they were raised in
what was, half dozen years ago, the
Great American Desert, and that the
farms have just been reclaimed from
waste, the showing is tirst-class.
l. w. Loring, of Paramount, on
Saturday sent into them fine sam
pie of durla, also known by the
names of Indian millet and Egyptian
corn, of which he raised quarter of
an acre as an experiment. He sowed
it broad cast, and it cameu as thick
as turnips, and is growing finely. 1t
has had no water beyond the rain
fall. The plant belongs to the sor-
ghum family, and in Central and
South America the wheat-shaped kerr
mel is ground into meal and used as
food for laborers. In this country
the grain is chiefly used as chicken
faad and the atalk makes aycallapt